Diarrhoea_Cocktail

Religions that emphasise piety and personal sacrifice don't tend to do well with celebrities. Religions that feel exclusive, that have cash values tossed around (Kabbalah and Scientology), where living rich and doing well is not frowned upon etv.... those tend to do well with them. Particularly when the religion with cater to them and be another 'yes man' to the celebrity,

About 5 weeks ago... maybe less, an ex-sci did an AMA. He was border line illiterate, and his responses were somewhat rambling and full of tech talk (sci terminology). It was actually pretty frightening to see the effect it had had on him. A copy of an email an ex-sci sent out was linked by someone... it explained the entire process she went through to become a clear and then to move up through the OT levels - and her disappointment and confusion with learning the truth. Scary and fascinating reading.

I tried using the search for 'scientologist' in IAMA - but got really old threads instead. I'm not really good at reddit, so perhaps someone else out there can help out? Or remembers the thread I am mentioning. It was not very long ago, and it got a fair amount of attention - and people were weirded out by the guys responses because they actually had to be translated by ex-scis and another guy who heads a "action group" (I guess, I don't know the terminology) against Scientology.